Store Round Up: Ikea 2011 Catalogue

One of my favorite times of the year is sitting down with the newest Ikea catalogue and checking out all the new items. I actually didn’t get a copy delivered to my building this year so ended up swiping a copy from my parents house. Shhhhh! Anyway, today I am going to share my top ten picks with you:

1 – I really like the curved lines of these Norrora curvy bathroom dishes. Sculptural *and* functional.

2 – Store your fruit in the Tradig bowl. This is so fun and looks much higher end than it actually is.

3 – I love how they’ve shown the Kivik chaise lounge in the catalogue: 3 stacked together to create a mondo-couch. It’s memory foam too – can you imagine how comfy this must be?

4 – Ikea showed a ton of new products to house your flat screen TV. This Besta TV unit in white is a great, sleek example.

5 – The Grundtal hanger is a simple but striking way to store bathroom ephemera.

6 – I love the simple graphic look of the Mandal headboard. This one sends my mind into overdrive: could it be painted? Used not as a headboard? Hmmmmmm.

7 – I am eternally obsessed with black and white, so I love the tribal reversible Vilmie Figur pillow cover.

8 – I am not even sure if this one is new but I have developed a serious crush on the Jorun rug in the last few weeks. Dark grey chevron print! Yum.

9 – Ikea always has fantastic reasonably priced fabrics, but in particular I am loving this Annamoa fabric. With pink squirrels, deer and foxes it would be amazing in a little girl’s room.

10 – Last but not least, I pick Komplement interior fittings for the Pax systems in ….white! For the longest time they were only available in birch finish, which drove a detail nut like me up the wall (ex. white exterior with birch fittings! oh vey!) They are also now available in black brown, so all your insides can match your exterior. It’s about time Ikea!